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Binod Mishra Deptt of HSS, IIT Roorkee. Mulk Raj Anand: A Novelist par Excellence. Life &amp; Achievements. Born in 1905 at Peshawar Graduated in 1924 from Khalsa College Left India in 1925 for England Awarded PhD in 1929 on the philosophy of Berkeley, Hume and Russell.

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Anand, it seems to me, is nothing less than a novelist of the human condition, a novelist whose province is human nature. The appeal of his novels is passionate; this significance is multiple and hopefully timeless rather than topical and temporal.

I have been evolving a philosophy of the human person which is miscellaneous. It is not doctrinaire thought. It is a number of insights, possibly arising from my experience. I think we are part of a much bigger universe , so we are part of the whole world.

Writing novels for the sake of writing novels was never my intention. I felt compelled to answer challenges and tried to get out of my own confusion.

I do not believe in institutionalized religion. And like Tolstoy, I would like to leave the beliefs of people to their own conscience, collaborating with them for certain secular ends, without objecting to their pet religion.

I believe Marx supplies a good yardstick for history and his basic proposition “Means of production determine consciousness” is correct . Except that Marx naturally simplified his thesis. He could not explain the irrational, instinctive and intuitive actions of man. There are many areas like aesthetic activity he left out. I am not a member of any political party. I reject nothing that is human. I agree with Coomaraswamy when he said : “ civilization must henceforth be human rather than local or national, or else it cannot exist.”

There is something of water in a woman. Flowing, flowing always in one direction or the another, restless like the waves, sometimes overwhelmingly moody, fickle and capricious as a river in storm, sometimes bright and smiling, sometimes soft and sad but always tender and kind.

All art is propaganda. The art of Ajanta is propaganda. The art of Ajanta is propaganda for Buddhism. the art of Ellora is propaganda for Hinduism. The art of western novel is propaganda for humanity against bourgeois. Gorky as a humanist dared to speak of man, man’s condition, not only to say how awful it is but he also suggested what man could be. And thus he did propaganda for man.